Hi, suppose I need to reference data from "file.txt" in my Scheme
program. I could use read-char / read / open-input-file etc (or other
(chicken io) procedures) to read the the contents of the file into a
variable.
However, such deserialization happens at run-time. If I compile my
program into an executable, it will try to open "file.txt" at run-time.
How can I arrange for "file.txt" to be read at compile-time, and inlined
into the executable, so that the executable doesn't require access to
the original file?
The only way I can think of is to convert "file.txt" to a scheme string
definition in a separate file:
; file.scm
(define file-contents " ... ")
and include it via (include "file.scm"). Then the definition would occur
at compile-time.
But of course this requires encoding (possibly binary) files as scheme
strings, and probably an extra Makefile step to convert file.txt into
file.scm. This is not attractive -- are there other options?
